Keynote Presentation Too Old

An interesting thing happened when I switched to a Macbook. My dates of skirting around pirate ships pretty much went by the wayside. Purchasing software became my new norm. Today was a test of my patience though.

I had a client who was years behind on upgrading her Macbook Pro. The screen was literally falling apart after who knows what kind of major impact to the chassis. This particular client is a PhD and does a lot of research and periodically has to do important presentations. After a few weeks of struggling back and forth with an impending deadline looming, she was finally convinced to buy a new Macbook Pro. Immediately her productivity shot up, and she was back on track.

There was just one problem. She had created quite a few Keynote presentations using the older iWork package. As it turns out, Keynote 6.x has some issues opening those older presentations. Yep – the new version of Keynote just doesn’t like those older files.

As a matter of fact, if you have a brand new Macbook and don’t have access to a functioning older one – you are pretty much stuck. Almost.

Apple doesn’t offer a download for the older version, and they don’t even offer a converter. Basically, you are left high and dry with your old presentations.